Mike Pence Is Warning Us About Trump
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A former vice president of the United States identified a sitting president as a mortal danger. In another time, it would have been the Story of the Century. Instead, it was the Kerfuffle of the Week, and it is already dissolving away in the new media cycle.
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Broken Sycophants
Mike Pence stunned Washington at this weekend’s annual Gridiron Club dinner and gained the attention of the media and the ire of the White House by making an offensive joke about the Cabinet member Pete Buttigieg.
At the same event, by the way, Pence that on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump—at the time, the president of the United States—endangered his life along with the
